The Duke in the Spire of Thorns

Escrito tucked in the quilt for Celeste, and then he lowered the bed curtain.

Celeste's breathing was even and long. The seemingly long dream just now had actually only passed half an hour in real life.

Escrit didn't intend to wake up his master now, he calmly left the bedroom to prepare afternoon tea.

Suddenly, the man with steady steps stopped.

He stood there, seemingly stunned.

"Are you in such a hurry?" He curved his lips gracefully: "If so, then as you wish."

He seemed to be having a conversation with some invisible person, and after the conversation was over, he glanced at the clock hanging on the wall.

"You have to hurry up, the afternoon tea is not ready yet."

He sighed, but there was no look of distress on his face, on the contrary, there was a bit of complacency that he didn't bother to hide.

Escrito thought for a while, he walked into the kitchen, kneaded the dough skillfully, and skillfully put the finished cake into the oven.He took off his gloves and straightened his collar.

The role he will play later is the winner, so naturally he can't show his embarrassed posture in front of his defeated opponent.

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Aponomo has been waiting a long time.

The originally gorgeous Aussie Palace now looked extremely bleak. He sat alone on the palace, and his whole body showed an unnatural translucency, as if it could be blown away by a gust of wind.

"You came."

He raised his head and showed a mocking smile: "It seems that you planned all this, doesn't it?"

Escrit smiled, neither denying nor nodding.

"It was a mistake to give you the name in the first place."

Aponomo no longer looked at Escrit, he recalled his past stupid actions, and his mood was extremely complicated.

How stupid he had been!

Escrit curled his lips, showing his white teeth, "Since this is the last time, how about letting me tell you a story? I believe you will be satisfied with this story."

Aponomo didn't answer, Escrito didn't care, and started talking on his own:

"A long time ago, there was a great alchemist who lived with his assistant in a desolate castle far away from the world."

"His assistant is very satisfied with this kind of life. In this secluded castle, there are only him and his master. He loves his master and is very satisfied with the status quo."

"However, the good times didn't last long. Suddenly one day, a poor alchemist with a bad reputation came to visit the master of the assistant. He not only made the master of the assistant give up alchemy, but also took the position of the assistant. The master and the alchemist The master gave up alchemy and studied a subject called mechanics together, and they were very addicted and could not extricate themselves."

"The assistant was very dissatisfied with this. He yearned for his and his master's life without being disturbed before, and longed for this damned uninvited guest to disappear immediately. He advised his master not to go astray and put his mind back on alchemy, but His master was determined, and he did not listen to his assistant's persuasion, and gradually regarded the alchemist as a close friend."

Escrito's voice was low, with a smile in his tone:

"The assistant is extremely jealous. He wants his master to understand that alchemy is the greatest discipline, but he also wants to be by his master's side at all times. Therefore, he used some means to divide his soul into two parts. He It is easy for him to keep his consciousness on half of the souls, because in fact, the real identity of the assistant is a mermaid. Every 50 years, the soul of the mermaid will automatically split into two parts. The half-souls will devour each other, and winning the right to retain consciousness will make the soul stronger. This will make the body stronger."

"The assistant split his soul in advance. He planned to let the part of his soul with his own consciousness study alchemy, while the other half of the soul went to serve his master. He prepared a fragile body for another self, and planned to wait for himself to achieve After the purpose, the other half of the soul will be drawn out and devoured."

"However, at this time, his master discovered what his assistant had done. He worried that his assistant would be swallowed by the other half of his soul, so he carefully crafted a perfect body for his other half of the soul. This body is very Strong, so the half of the soul inside cannot leave this body, that is to say, he can neither devour the assistant, nor be swallowed by the assistant. His master even hopes that the two halves of the soul can get along like brothers. After all, the master Being a human being by itself cannot have a long lifespan, but the lifespan of these two halves of souls is very long, so they can just keep each other company."

"The assistant doesn't care about this. He believes that his alchemy will definitely surpass his master's. At that time, he can take the other half of the soul out of the body and devour it. With such confidence, he and the other half The soul has exchanged identities and given its own name to the other half of the soul, so that, in the eyes of the master, the person accompanying him is an assistant."

"The assistant is not worried that the other half of the soul will replace him, because he will swallow that half of the soul in the end, so he gave his name to the other half of the soul, so that the other half of the soul can serve his master peacefully. Involved in alchemy. The other half of the soul has no choice but to say yes."

"As time goes by, the other half of the soul..."

"To shut up!"

Aponomo scolded sharply: "Stop talking!"

"Don't be angry." Escrit smiled slightly, "The story has just begun, and you will be satisfied at the end."

He continued: "With the passage of time, the other half of the soul will inevitably fall in love with the master. He was unwilling to be swallowed. At this moment, he has the identity of an assistant and enjoys the feeling of falling in love with the master. The reluctance disappeared. For this reason, he began to induce his master to become more obsessed with mechanical research."

"He decided to completely occupy the identity of the assistant, and the assistant is still obsessed with the research of alchemy and knows nothing about it. He is almost the same as the assistant in strength, but he can't draw out the assistant's soul and devour it. It can't be done because the master is by his side, he doesn't want to be known by the master, he's just an imposter."

"Therefore, he had a plan. He began to study machinery. When the master made him, he added sage fragments to his brain, and the sage fragments sharpened his mind, and he quickly mastered the advanced Mechanical knowledge. He drew a mechanical sketch about traveling through time and space, and put it in the manuscript of the master's friend."

"After the master's friend found the manuscript, he was ecstatic, but the matter of traveling through time and space was too crazy, he didn't dare to try it himself, so he urged the master to do an experiment for him. The other half of the soul also secretly pushed the master to make a decision, Because he is very jealous of the assistant, he wants to completely erase the master's memory about the assistant, and start over with the master. Only by sending the master to the distant future, these memories will be buried by time, and there is no trace of them. Leave."

"The master finally decided to experiment. In this way, his soul left the body and went to the distant future, and the other half of the soul left a mark on the master's soul, so as to ensure that he could find the master in the first place."

"After the master left, the master's friend looked at the master's cold body and thought that the experiment had failed. He fled the castle after concealing the news, for fear of being retaliated by the master's loyal servant. The assistant is working on a key part of the project and will hardly leave The alchemy room, and the other half of the soul didn't intend to tell him. He took this opportunity to start arranging everything, in order to hit his assistants, he wanted to make alchemy disappear forever...or in other words, speed up the pace of its disappearance."

"At this time, the assistant missed the master and wanted to change his identity to see the master. But what he got was bad news. After finding out the truth, he hated the 'friend' who encouraged the master to conduct the experiment, and let go of what he was thinking about. Research, and ignore the existence of the other half of the soul, and start hunting down the master's 'friend'."

"This is exactly what the other half of the soul wants to see. He secretly provides help for the master's 'friend', so that the assistant is always unable to catch each other. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the other half of the soul builds a thorny tower in the name of the master, He made the Spire of Thorns a dream paradise for all alchemists. In the Spire of Thorns, all alchemists can communicate with each other. The alchemists will be provided with the materials they need here, and a group of talented apprentices will be recruited every year. The alchemists choose, let the alchemists choose their favorite apprentices, and pass on their alchemy."

"However, what they don't know is that those seemingly pleasing apprentices are actually puppets carefully crafted by the other half of the soul. Those puppets passed on the knowledge learned from the various alchemy masters to the other half of the soul Because of this, the alchemy of the other half of the soul is getting better and better, after all, the strength of unity is the greatest, isn't it?"

"With the death of alchemy masters one after another, there has been a fault in the inheritance of alchemy. After all, their apprentices are not real people, but a group of puppets, and puppets will not inherit. After achieving the goal, another Half of the souls closed the Thorn Spire, and alchemy gradually declined."

"And the assistant didn't notice all this at all. After avenging his master, he began to concentrate on researching how to bring the master back to life, ignoring the outside world at all."

"The other half of the soul is waiting for the master in the long river of time. He waited for a long time, and gradually the longing became unbearable. His mind began to gradually become distorted. He thought, after his master, he will let him The master of the house has no one else around."

"But this is impossible. He is very clear that his master is a human being, and human beings need relatives and friends in addition to lovers."

"So, he had an idea. He felt that he could make some exquisite puppets. In this way, he completely owned his master, and his master also had relatives and friends. This is a wonderful idea. idea."

"Finally, he found his master. His master was repelled by the law of time. He was about to die just after he was born. The other half of his soul had foreseen this. He came to the door with the potion he made and drank the potion. In the end, his master forgot everything in the past, and came back to this world as a newborn, took advantage of the loopholes in the law, and survived."

"During the period when the master grew up again, the other half of the soul started careful planning and was busy, so he could only take time to visit his master. The master lost his memory and his personality changed, but the other half of the soul I found myself loving such a master even more."

"After the master became an adult, he returned to the master as a servant. This time, the relationship between him and the master belongs to him completely."

"He was a little carried away, and let his assistant discover the existence of the master. The assistant was very happy to find that the master still existed in the world. He performed alchemy on the other half of the soul, trying to control the other half of the soul, and then swallowed the other half of the soul. Unfortunately, he His alchemy was not as good as the other half of the soul, so he failed. However, the other half of the soul did not let the assistant realize this. He pretended to be controlled and quietly promoted his plan."

"The assistant was overjoyed. He wanted the master to recall their past. He used some tricks and made a few puppets to pull the master into a dream. This is part of the other half of the soul's plan. He borrowed This opportunity has distorted the master's past memories, which he carefully pieced together, and the master will definitely not be able to find any abnormalities."

"The assistant realized something was wrong at this moment, but he had nothing to do, so he decided to devour the other half of the soul first, and then slowly figure it out. The other half of the soul pretended to be weak, and successfully confused the assistant. The assistant saw His master, but found that he has no place in the memory of the other party, so he can only temporarily use the identity in the memory of the master to approach the master."

"The master believed the assistant's words. From then on, the master has a relative, a lovely younger sister."

"The assistant's usefulness has been achieved, and the other half of the soul begins to devour the assistant. The assistant is caught off guard, but he cannot resist because of his lack of strength."

"At the same time, the other half of the soul brought the carefully crafted puppet onto the stage. It appeared as a 'friend', which confuses the master. The other half of the soul proposed to give its master a reference at the right time. At this time, the other half The soul has swallowed one-third of the assistant, so he also has the assistant's memory, and he arranged these memories carefully, successfully deepening and fixing the master's impression of the past."

"The master believed in the memory of the other half of the soul. From then on, the master also has a friend, a warm friend."

"The master and his 'friends' researched many mechanical devices that can make the human race progress, and accelerated the development process of the world."

"As time passed, the other half of the soul completely devoured the assistant, and the master was once again rejected by the law of time because of the 'memories' of the past, but the master's achievements prevented the law of time from erasing his existence, so he was rejected Out of time, keep the appearance of youth, never die."

"The master's friends and relatives have passed away with time, and the lonely master can only pin his emotions on his only relative, only friend, and only lover."

"He thanked God for making him lucky to have friends, relatives, and lovers who can go on with him."

A weird smile appeared on Escrit's face:

"Since then, they have lived happily together."

He looked at Abenomo and asked softly:

"How? Did you like the story?"